dismember

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: dis=mem=ber

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dismember, v.tr.
1 tear or cut the limbs from.
2 partition or divide up (an empire, country, etc.).

Derivative

dismemberment n.

Etymology

ME f. OF desmembrer f. Rmc (as DIS-, L membrum limb)

THESAURUS

dismember

cripple, defoliate, denude, disassemble, dismantle, draw and quarter, flay, grill, impale, keelhaul, lacerate, maim, mangle, mayhem, mutilate, part, peel, pick to pieces, picket, pull apart, rack, separate, sever, shred, skin, strip, sunder, take apart, take down, tar and feather, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, torture

ROGET THESAURUS

dismember

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

Dispersion

VB disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute, apportion, blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off, strew, straw, strow, ted, spirtle, cast, sprinkle, issue, deal out, retail, utter, resperse, intersperse, set abroach, circumfuse, turn adrift, cast adrift, scatter to the winds, spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.